Title
Using local gene expression similarities to discover regulatory binding site modules.
Abstract
We present an approach designed to identify gene regulation patterns using sequence and expression data collected for Saccharomyces cerevisae. Our main goal is to relate the combinations of transcription factor binding sites (also referred to as binding site modules) identified in gene promoters to the expression of these genes. The novel aspects include local expression similarity clustering and an exact IF-THEN rule inference algorithm. We also provide a method of rule generalization to include genes with unknown expression profiles.We have implemented the proposed framework and tested it on publicly available datasets from yeast S. cerevisae. The testing procedure consists of thorough statistical analyses of the groups of genes matching the rules we infer from expression data against known sets of co-regulated genes. For this purpose we have used published ChIP-Chip data and Gene Ontology annotations. In order to make these tests more objective we compare our results with recently published similar studies.Results we obtain show that local expression similarity clustering greatly enhances overall quality of the derived rules, both in terms of enrichment of Gene Ontology functional annotation and coherence with ChIP-Chip binding data. Our approach thus provides reliable hypotheses on co-regulation that can be experimentally verified. An important feature of the method is its reliance only on widely accessible sequence and expression data. The same procedure can be easily applied to other microbial organisms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1186/1471-2105-7-505
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
transcription factor binding site,gene regulation,chip,microarrays,gene expression,data collection,algorithms,binding site,bioinformatics,biological sciences
Gene,DNA binding site,Biology,Fungal protein,Regulation of gene expression,Rule induction,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Cluster analysis,DNA microarray,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
0.56
18
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bartek Wilczynski141826.85
Torgeir R. Hvidsten218014.52
Andriy Kryshtafovych3623.07
Jerzy Tiuryn41210126.00
J Komorowski519115.16
Krzysztof Fidelis6623.06